Data-Driven Precision Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges

2015 ◽  
pp. 368-387
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Luca Carbonari ◽  
Andrea Botta ◽  
Paride Cavallone ◽  
Luigi Tagliavini ◽  
Giuseppe Quaglia

Abstract In the recent past, the use of autonomous vehicles is becoming of relevant interest in several fields of application. Personal assistance, precision agriculture, and rescue are just few examples alongside the more common industrial applications. In many cases, the use of articulated structures is preferred to single chassis robots for their peculiar modularity. Moreover, they can be easily provided with locomotion units particularly suitable to overpass obstacles and to move on uneven grounds. Such vehicles are often built as an active front module and a rear one that is pulled passively or that can contribute to the vehicle traction when required. Understanding whether this contribution is convenient or not, it is the main matter of this paper. Two different mobile robots of different scale and purpose are taken into consideration. A dynamic model is presented and experimentally validated to be used as an analysis tool. At last, a simple yet effective actuation law is tested to evaluate the whether the contribution of the back module is beneficial or not to the whole machine manoeuvrability.


2022 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 108360
Author(s):  
Si Yang Han ◽  
Thomas Bishop ◽  
Patrick Filippi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia A.A. Fox

Precision agriculture is meant to improve on-farm efficiency in hopes of ultimately increasing profitability while also protecting the environment. However, this difficult process almost always includes the proper management and interpretation of data. Therefore, it is imperative that those individuals involved in making such decisions are educated on these processes. In a data-driven world, this textbook is a great resource for those wanting to learn how to utilize their data in hopes of making better informed on-farm decisions.


Precision agriculture (PA) allows precise utilization of inputs like seed, water, pesticides, and fertilizers at the right time to the crop for maximizing productivity, quality and yields. By deploying sensors and mapping fields, farmers can understand their field in a better way conserve the resources being used and reduce adverse affects on the environment. Most of the Indian farmers practice traditional farming patterns to decide crop to be cultivated in a field. However, the farmers do not perceive crop yield is interdependent on soil characteristics and climatic condition. Thus this paper proposes a crop recommendation system which helps farmers to decide the right crop to sow in their field. Machine learning techniques provide efficient framework for data-driven decision making. This paper provides a review on set of machine learning techniques to support the farmers in making decision about right crop to grow depending on their field’s prominent attributes.


Author(s):  
Dr. C. K. Gomathy

Abstract: Agriculture has been the sector of paramount importance as it feeds the country's population along with contributing to the GDP. Crop yield varies with a combination of factors including soil properties, climate, elevation and irrigation technique. Technological developments have fallen short in estimating the yield based on this joint dependence of the said factors. Hence, in this project a data-driven model that learns by historic soil as well as rainfall data to analyse and predict crop yield over seasons in several districts, has been developed. For this study, a particular crop, Rice, is considered. The designed hybrid neural network model identifies optimal combinations of soil parameters and blends it with the rainfall pattern in a selected region to evolve the expected crop yield. The backbone for the predictive analysis model with respect to the rainfall is based on the TimeSeries approach in Supervised Learning. The technology used for the final prediction of the crop yield is again a branch of Machine Learning, known as Recurrent Neural Networks. With two inter-communicating data-driven models working at the backend, the final predictions obtained were successful in depicting the interdependence between soil parameters for yield and weather attributes. Keywords: Precision agriculture, Artificial intelligence, Crop management, Solutions, Yield, Soil management


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